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Why the Public Option is Good for Veterans (www.huffingtonpost.com)

Veterans have put their lives on the line for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Their families have made huge sacrifices for the same. If anyone has earned the right to see a doctor,... More

Tags: public options,veterans,health care reform

Submitted 3 months ago by cdoherty on OurTroops | 0 Comments |

Protecting Forests May Still Help Climate-Change Fight (www.time.com)

This month, the journal Nature Geoscience published a study calculating that deforestation is responsible for about 15% of global carbon emissions, down from earlier estimates of 20% or more. Most of... More

Tags: copenhagen,rainforests,climate change

Submitted 3 months ago by cdoherty on TheRainforest | 0 Comments |

Papua hopes to cash in with REDD (www.thejakartapost.com)

Papua, in the eastern part of Indonesia, is the province best prepared to implement the Reducing Emission from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) scheme, the provincial administration has... More

Tags: papua,redd,deforestation

Submitted 3 months ago by cdoherty on TheRainforest | 0 Comments |

Documenting against deforestation (www.squamishchief.com)

A number of concerns ranging from weight gain to stray crumbs may flash through the mind of a seemingly innocent Oreo cookie eater, but rainforest devastation is likely not one of them.

Tags: deforestation,borneo,rainforests

Submitted 3 months ago by cdoherty on TheRainforest | 0 Comments |

Saving rainforest is a key to controlling climate change (news.therecord.com)

No matter how many times you hear them, there are some statistics that just bowl you over. The one that always stuns me is this: Imagine if you took all the cars, trucks, planes, trains and ships in... More

Tags: rainforests,climate change

Submitted 3 months ago by cdoherty on TheRainforest | 0 Comments |

Rainforest money doesn't grow on trees (www.guardian.co.uk)

My colleagues in the Amazon office of Greenpeace like to characterise deforestation as a lion, oscillating between periods of slumber and bouts of frenetic and violent activity. New figures released... More

Tags: rainforests,costs,world leaders

Submitted 3 months ago by cdoherty on TheRainforest | 0 Comments |

Rainforests could be traded on world market (news.bbc.co.uk)

Why would America's largest coal utility and Britain's biggest oil company invest in protecting a remote plot of Bolivian rainforest?

Tags: rainforests,world market,trading

Submitted 3 months ago by cdoherty on TheRainforest | 0 Comments |

Lost There, Felt Here (www.nytimes.com)

“One million dollars?” The question was asked with eyes wide and a voice of incredulity. The person asking was Antonio Waldez Góes da Silva, the governor of the Amazonian state of Amapá,... More

Tags: costs,rainforests,deforestation,brazil

Submitted 3 months ago by cdoherty on TheRainforest | 0 Comments |

The negative effects of deforestation (deforestationarticles.blogspot.com)

Ruthlessly destroying forests and rainforests around the globe to make more room for farms and cattle pasture is one of the biggest environmental evils that happens today in many parts of the world.... More

Tags: deforestation,climate change,carbon emissions

Submitted 4 months ago by cdoherty on TheRainforest | 0 Comments |

Expert counts cost of rainforest deforestation (www.coolearth.org)

Biologist Andrew Mitchell has likened seeing a rainforest burning down to "an opera where people are lying around bleeding" while speaking at the launch of the World Travel Market's World Responsible... More

Tags: rainforests,deforestation,costs

Submitted 4 months ago by cdoherty on TheRainforest | 0 Comments |

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